that year.
for that.
It will appear that the
whole of that amount was not called for.
In the mean while I may state specifically with reference to the office of Treasures, that the expenses of that Department in Clerks have been much
reduced by Mr. Mercer, who unlike his
bby. predecessor, employs his own time that of his Assistants exclusively in the duties of his Office, instead of bringing the Colonial accounts into arrear, and increasing the public expenditure, by employing himself and them on matters with which he has no official
When the Colony has passed the period of its first establishment, much. of the public business will be abridged methodised so as to admit of a curtailment of the Public Expenditure, at the same time that the Revenue may fairly be expected
concern.
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expected to increase on the other hand. As regards the particular office of Treasurer, although its charges may be diminished, its consolidation with that of Colonial Secretary
tof is not the mode I would recommend with
that view, because, in the first place, his
increased. Collector of revenues
duties
are
as a
and, secondly, because the charge of the
Consular Accounts devolves on him, in
addition to the Colonial.
In this climate and position,
(
the tenancy of Office differs greatly as to permanency in comparison with the Home and indeed many other Colonial establishments, and it appears to myself that with the secession of.
occupants of Office,
some
of the present
some diminution in
the scale of Salary would still obtain efficient. - services. As Mr. Mercer has, after "nine months experience, proved himself
deserving